This ebook explores 3 the most important levels in Dickens' on-going voyage of discovery into what has been referred to as the 'hidden springs' of his fiction; arguing that during 3 of Dickens top recognized novels, we witness Dickens responding to a couple identifiable strength represented as coming from beneath the floor plan of the booklet in query.

What's an occasion? From a philosophical viewpoint, occasions are abnormal occurrences—moments of swap and interruption—categorized via human notion, language, and idea. whereas philosophers have pored over the topic of occasions commonly in recent times, the development: Literature and idea seeks to floor it: what's literature’s method of the development?

Phyllis Webb is a poet round whom archetypes are inclined to cluster: the reclusive artist; the distraught, borderline suicidal Sapphic girl poet. whereas at the floor she turns out supremely disinterested within the public sphere, argues Stephen Collis during this occasion of her paintings, Webb isn't any household, as a writer or a critic.